Shreyas Rao

**Feature (What you would like to be added):** Re-enable TM tests on the concourse pipeline, but don't run it on every PR build, but ideally triggered by a label added...

**Feature (What you would like to be added):** It would be desirable to move away from the current hardcoded full snapshot duration value [here](https://github.com/gardener/etcd-backup-restore/blob/6b8bf4d501195b2790e47ad333ac340cfdc3f368/pkg/server/backuprestoreserver.go#L202), and make this more cron-schedule aware,...

[BUG] Long validation duration for large ETCDs that get OOMKilled

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**Describe the bug:** When the etcd data is large (>1GB) and get oomkilled, backup sidecar takes very long (>5hr) to perform validation of the data directory and start etcd again....

☂️ [GEP-20] Highly Available Shoot Control Planes

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**How to categorize this issue?** /area high-availability /kind enhancement **What would you like to be added**: This is an umbrella issue to track the implementation of [GEP-20 Highly Available Shoot...

/area os /kind enhancement **What this PR does / why we need it**: Update alpine base image version to latest version `3.18.6`. **Which issue(s) this PR fixes**: Fixes # **Special...

**Question:** Is there a valid use case for etcdbr to restore from a bucket which has only delta snapshots and no full snapshots? I ask this because in a recent...

[Feature] Better garbage collection of snapshots

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**Feature (What you would like to be added):** Better garbage collection of snapshots. **Motivation (Why is this needed?):** Current garbage collection policy of `Exponential` is hard-coded to a certain schedule...

[WIP] Upgrade to go 1.22.2, g/g 1.92.2, and refresh indirect dependencies in go.mod

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**How to categorize this PR?** /area quality dev-productivity /kind impediment enhancement **What this PR does / why we need it**: Upgrades to go v1.22.2, and updates g/g dependency to v1.92.2...

**How to categorize this issue?** /area dev-productivity /kind impediment **What happened**: As a developer, I work on both etcd-druid as well as gardener/gardener on my local machine. With the latest...

[Cleanup] Use consistent images for e2e test utils

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**Feature (What you would like to be added):** Use consistent images for e2e test utils. **Motivation (Why is this needed?):** Druid e2e tests use multiple helper jobs that run certain...